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Did you know that Eli Lily Jr. published his doctoral dissertation of the therapeutic benefits of cannabis medicine less than one year before the 1937 Marihuana Tax Stamp Act?

Did you know that in the early days of Pfizer’s subsidiary Park Davis, the volatile geopolitical climate (eg WW1) sent the company on a worldwide strain hunt to collect cannabis seeds for domestic production?

Did you know that Cannabis Indica is a term derived from Indicae Cannabis, meaning cannabis from India, as opposed to European cannabis?

Originally posted to my Instagram @i502drew #parkedavis #drug catalog from 1901, which includes the pictured item, #cannabis #flowers. Catalog number 144th from the world’s first ever #pharmaceutical company. At this time, Westerners hadn’t learned how cultivate and harvest #medicinal (aka #narcotic aka #cannabisindica) cannabis but over the next two decades, both Read More

Well, what do you think they put into this concoction? I imagine that when carbonated water was invented, it was touted as a remedy for a number of things in a similar fashion. In this case, the claims of strength Read More

Sometimes when I’m perusing antique patent medicine advertisements, I like to play a guessing game. The object is to guess what type of drugs a given remedy contained. Let’s start with the most basic of drug taxonomies, uppers and downers. Nothing says American Read More